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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers I have forgot my root password. Solaris 10 Post 303045838 by Stellaman1977 on Tuesday 14th of April 2020 10:28:30 PM
Old 04-14-2020
Hi. I had the same problem and this solution was really helpful. However, I was able to do this without an installation CD. From the login screen, I did a
Code:
STOP A

then boot into failsafe mode
Code:
boot -F failsafe

. As a bonus, when it reboots, it tells you what drive the operating system is on and asks you if you would like to mount it to /a. Here is my whole procedure:


From the login screen:
Stop A
At the {1}ok prompt:
boot -F failsafe
Screen echoes that it has found the disk with the OS and do you wish to have it mounted read-write on /a. Choose:
y
Instead of using EDIT command, you can use VI by entering
TERM=vt100
Export TERM
Edit the password file:
vi /a/etc/shadow
Use ghjk to navigate to the hashed password (between 1st and 2nd colons), then x to delete the characters.
Save the file:
:
w!
Exit the file:
:
Q
Power the machine off, then back on.
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NAME
WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Callback - Call Perl code to fill out a HTML form field SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller; use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Callback; my $f = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller->new(); # Create a default value for the HTML field "login" # This will put the current login name into the login field sub find_login { getlogin || getpwuid($<) || "Kilroy"; }; my $login = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Callback->new( login => &find_login ); $f->add_value( login => $login ); # Alternatively take the following shorthand, which adds the # field to the list as well : # "If there is no password, put a nice number there my $password = $f->add_filler( password => Callback => sub { int rand(90) + 10 } ); DESCRIPTION
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